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Originally Posted by davidhuff
What did you guys spend?
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I bought the Volare as a turnkey crate motor Stocker for $9K. Throughout its life as a Stocker, it got a fuel cell, an Auto Meter playback tach, rewiring, and freshened the engine periodically, and did little upgrades along the way. I had about $18K in upgrading everything to run Super Stock. I did later backhalf the car, but in retrospect, didn't have to, although the shocks and Moser 60 rear were a good investment. I'm actually going back down to a smaller tire, hopefully this weekend (29.5x10.5 M/T Pro Bracket Radial).
The biggest investment is going to be the engine. Other than that, invest in getting the converter right, radials, a good tach and shifter, and let it eat. Our Stocker setups have always been just Super Stock leaf springs, and a pinion snubber. The Volare just had stock shocks for a very long time. Most of the things on a Stocker build list are more on the "want" and "go fast" lists more than the "need" list.
I think we got about $10K in upgrading Terry's car from crate motor to NHRA Stock, which was a turnkey engine, upgrading trans, more gear, and loosening the converter. 'Course he got a decent chunk of that back by selling the crate motor.
You can save a lot of money by knowing what your end goal is and spending smart money on the right stuff in the right places the first time, instead of upgrading a little bit at a time.